--- title: This Ass used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: This Ass used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say, "You are beautiful; I should like to eat you!" Who acts: Ass, You, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Thistle's Experiences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/) / 4 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 4 This Ass used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say, "You are beautiful; I should like to eat you!" **Who acts:** Ass, You, I · **What happens:** use, stretch out, say, be, like, eat · **To what, where:** neck, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, You, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:189:4 # text = This Ass used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say, "You are beautiful; I should like to eat you!" 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 Ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 towards towards ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Thistle Thistle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | this Ass | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **stretch out** | to-infinitive | this Ass *not said here* | Ass's neck | | | | towards the Thistle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient towards thistle=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **like** *in a quote* | should | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **eat** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/5/) - ↑ back to [The Thistle's Experiences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/)